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1 | Is homosexuality actually forbidden? | Romans | Hank | 171005 | ||
benito: The English language, for all its richness, malleability and versatility does have an occasional Achilles' heel here and there, and one of its chief points of vulnerability is exemplified in the word 'love.' Whereas we English-speaking peoples commonly use the word 'love' to express any number of different types of affections or attachments that human beings develop one for another, other languages have different words to express the nuances of meaning embodied in what we in English must lump together in a single word and call all these kinds of emotions simply 'love' -- though we have a keen sense of its mundaneness and inadequacy. The paucity of our linguistic resources for expression precise meanings of different kinds of love have forced us to become slave drivers of the little word 'love' and we have overworked it so much that we've worn the little critter out. The ancient Greeks, for example, used one word to describe what we call brotherly love, another for erotic love, and still another for the kind of selfless love we speak of when we talk about Christian love or Christian charity of the sort Paul spoke of in 1 Corinthians 13. ...... So now, with this in mind -- the various kinds of love, I mean -- I cannot help but agree with you that the existence of homosexuality in the world is a lame excuse for any one to shy away from loving his neighbor as himself, because this kind of love is not understood by any sane person to be remotely connected to erotic (sexual) love. ..... I am a man, a Christian man, and I have a number of dear friends whom I love -- friends who happen to be male and others who are female. That does not mean that I am sexually attracted to them. I dearly love my wife of nearly 50 years, but the love I have for my wife is not the same kind of love that I have for my friends, my children, and my grand-children. I also love the Lord Jesus. But again, the love I have for Him is not the same kind of love that I have for my wife, my family and my friends. ..... And a departing comment: Erotic love such as a man has for his wife and she for him, is not the same as what is frequently called love but is in reality lust. Two unmarried people having sex, whether homo-sex or hetero-sex. are not 'making love' in the same sense that a married couple, loyal and devoted to one another in a lifetime relationship of commitment and trust, experience. More than likely what the couple who engage in sex outside of matrimony are making together is lust, not love. ...... By the way, I do believe that Doc spoke well and scripturally on the matter of judging, and that his words deserve careful consideration. It's all too tempting to say something like "that's not for me to judge, that's none of my business" as an excuse for not standing up for what's right and not opposing with vigor what's wrong! --Hank | ||||||
2 | Is homosexuality actually forbidden? | Romans | benitosuave | 171082 | ||
Please read follow up to Doc for why I still do not approve of judging. Yes I do know of the lack of differentiated love in the English language. I understand that sexual love is only true between a husband and wife under spiritual marriage. I would say that it is essential that we love every single person on this earth (and those in space) as intensely as we can, for in doing so, we are imitating God. While there are special bonds between parents and children, family, etc. we should never consfuse those bonds with spiritual heavenly love. If you don't decided to love everyone with Godly love, you won't reguardless of if they are your wife, son, grandmother or whatever. |
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3 | Is homosexuality actually forbidden? | Romans | BradK | 171123 | ||
Hi benito, While I agree, there is a need to distinguish between love and tolerance of sin. Scripture in no ways says the Christian is not to judge. I like what A.W. Pink said in this regard, "There are many today who talk about the love of God, who are total strangers to the God of love. The Divine love is commonly regarded as a species of amiable weakness, a sort of good-natured indulgence; it is reduced to a mere sickly sentiment, patterned after human emotion. Now the truth is that on this, as on everything else, our thoughts need to be formed and regulated by what is revealed thereon in Holy Scripture. That there is urgent need for this is apparent not only from the ignorance which so generally prevails, but also from the low state of spirituality which is now so sadly evident everywhere among professing Christians. How little real love there is for God. One chief reason for this is because our hearts are so little occupied with His wondrous love for His people. The better we are acquainted with His love—its character, fulness, blessedness—the more will our hearts be drawn out in love to Him." Similarly, 1 Cor. 2:15-16 says: "But he who is spiritual appraises (judges) all things, yet he himself is appraised (judged) by no one. For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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4 | Is homosexuality actually forbidden? | Romans | alanh | 171131 | ||
1 Corithians 6.9ff says: Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor abusers of themselves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. |
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